| LC control no. | n 78090548 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3563.C336 |
| Personal name heading | McCarry, Charles |
| Variant(s) | McCarry, Albert Charles, Jr., 1930-2019 |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) Massachusetts Florida |
| Birth date | 1930-06-14 |
| Death date | 2019-02-26 |
| Place of birth | Pittsfield (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Fairfax County (Va.) |
| Field of activity | American fiction Biography Travel Intelligence service Journalism Editing |
| Affiliation | United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Authors Biographers Intelligence officers Periodical editors |
| Found in | His Citizen Nader, 1972. His Double Eagle, 1979: t.p. (Charles McCarry) pub. info. sheet (b. 6/14/30) Washington post WWW site, viewed March 1, 2019 (Charles McCarry spent almost 10 years in the CIA as an undercover agent, operating alone as he roamed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. McCarry, whose novels about spycraft and politics were deeply admired if not always well known, died Feb. 26 [2019] in Fairfax County, Va. He was 88. Albert Charles McCarry Jr. was born June 14, 1930, in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1958, Mr. McCarry joined the CIA. He left the CIA in 1967 to concentrate on writing. His first book, "Citizen Nader," a somewhat skeptical biography of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, appeared in 1972. In addition to his novels, Mr. McCarry published several nonfiction books on travel and one of the first transatlantic balloon flights. He also helped write the memoirs of Alexander M. Haig Jr., a onetime White House chief of staff and secretary of state. Mr. McCarry settled in Washington in 1985 and, for several years, was an editor-at-large for National Geographic. He maintained homes for many years in Massachusetts and Florida) |
| Associated language | eng |
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